Less coal supplies from Eastern Coalfields (ECL), Bharat Coking Coal ( BCCL) and Central Coalfields (CCL) have left 3 of the 7 Damodar Valley Corporation’s thermal power plants with no coal stocks at the plant heads. But the seven coal fired plants aggregating an installed capacity of 5,750 MW are having an average stock of more than 4 days.
The situation has happened since DVC’s 210 MW Durgapur thermal power station has stock of 25 days against its normative requirement of 20 days. Other plants including Bokaro TPS (500MW), Koderma TPS (1,000 MW ) and Durgapur Steel TPS ( 1,000 MW) have coal stocks of 3 days, 2 days and 1 day respectively. The 500 MW Chandrapura TPS, 2,340 MW Mejia TPS and the 1,200 MW Raghunathpur TPS have no coal stock at their plants.
